Drum rudiment trainer
Rudiments are short sticking patterns that drummers practise to build control and speed. Choose one and follow the highlighted letter: R for your right hand, L for your left.
The click is higher for R and lower for L, and louder on the accented notes: the first note of each group in the paradiddles and the paradiddle-diddle, and the last stroke in the five stroke roll. The single and double stroke rolls have no accents.
Free, no sign-up, works on phones. Nothing you play is recorded.
Rudiment trainer
Rudiments are short sticking patterns drummers practise to build control. R is your right hand, L your left. Follow the highlighted letter in time with the click (higher click for R, lower for L, louder on the accented notes, marked with a dot). Start slowly.
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Sticking from the Percussive Arts Society rudiments. Many drummers practise rudiments on a practice pad.
How to use it
- Choose a rudiment and how many notes to play per beat.
- Start slowly and keep every stroke even, then build up the speed.
- If you need to keep the noise down, ask your teacher about practising on a practice pad.
Learn more: Drum kit theory: the kit, notation and rudiments
More free tools
- Drum beat playerPlay along with simple drum beats on hi-hat, snare and bass drum, counted 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +. Mute any part to play it yourself. Free, in your browser.
- Free online metronomeA free online metronome: 30 to 240 bpm, tap tempo, accents, quavers, triplets and semiquavers, and a tempo ladder for speeding up a passage step by step.
- Practice logLog practice minutes and what you worked on, see your last 7 days and streak, and copy a summary for your teacher. Stays on your device.
Every tool is also in the Quick tools button in the corner of each page.
Keep the practice you do
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